MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Over the past week, you have probably heard a lot about the Tulsa race massacre, when a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents in the Greenwood neighborhood on May 31, 1921. Well, as the 100th anniversary commemorations wind down, we are taking a moment today to look at the Greenwood of 2021. Karen Grigsby Bates from NPR s Code Switch podcast traveled to Tulsa, and she s here with us now.
Hey, Karen.
KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Hi there.
KELLY: So as you were talking with residents about their thoughts on this anniversary, all the attention generated by this anniversary, what kind of things were you hearing?
Biden declared that the nation must learn from its “dark sides” as he became the first president to lead a remembrance ceremony in Tulsa for victims of the long overlooked racist massacre.
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President Joe Biden listens Tuesday to Michelle Brown-Burdex, program coordinator with the Greenwood Cultural Center, talk about the history of the Greenwood District. Biden s visit coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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President Joe Biden listens Tuesday to Michelle Brown-Burdex, program coordinator with the Greenwood Cultural Center, talk about the history of the Greenwood District. Biden s visit coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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President Joe Biden listens Tuesday to Michelle Brown-Burdex, program coordinator with the Greenwood Cultural Center, talk about the history of the Greenwood District. Biden s visit coincided with
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On Tuesday, Joe Biden became the first sitting American president to commemorate the anniversary of the destruction of a prosperous Black community by a white mob that left up to 300 people dead and 10,000 homeless. Just because history is silent, it doesn t mean that it did not take place, Biden said in remarks to survivors of the massacre and their families at the Greenwood Cultural Center. Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous, they can t be buried, no matter how hard people try.